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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Getting On Track

After a downer of a, well, week, I'm...well, I'm still pretty down, but am trying my best to get through it. All will work out. It has to. :-)

So, to feel that I have SOME control in life, I decided to do a little (very little) bit of organizing. Sometimes anything larger seems too daunting. But this I could handle.

We purchased these wall organizers from Target awhile ago. Like, before we were married. I knew I loved their design and neutral palette, but didn't quite know what to do with them. Today, inspiration struck. I drilled 4 screws into the wall with all my might - seriously, our walls are like cement - and hung them up.

Now, I have one system for my current theater goings-on and another for my important bills 'n things. In a huge confession of personal flaw, I must say that while I pay my bills (mostly) on time, I'm horrible at keeping them organized and getting them filed away. So, this system will not only keep them from stacking up on my desk, but will remind me "oh, yeah, that's getting way too full...time to file." Or, at least, that's what I'm telling myself. ;-)

The bottom section of the "personal bills" container is for current "must pay" bills - a visual to give me that good kind of stress that says "Hey, stupid, pay this." The larger back part is for stuff that has to be filed.

The other container houses recent minutes in the top, large section and miscellaneous theater things (as you see, a script I have to read, among other odds 'n ends) in the bottom. Since Dave and I are (gasp) officially planning on still being on the board next season (unless we receive a flood of nominations from the floor at our next dinner meeting), I'm encouraged to have things in a normal, orderly, shall-I-say routine spot.

While I was at it, I finally decided to fling my plan of finding proper frames, and simply nail up our New Year's Resolution collages. So, here they are:

You can't quite see all of our goals (in visual form) in this picture, which is a good thing - some of them are kinda personal and it's nice to keep some things private. But, for those wondering, here are the highlights (in no particular order):
- More eco-friendly products, represented by the Tom's toothpaste and Meyer's cleaning liquid.
- Kitties! Yep, we found a sketch of a cat, which is strange because we got our second cat shortly after snipping the picture. Aaaand who knows, perhaps we'll get a third! (I may be going crazy, what do you think?)
- Keeping an open mind.
- More all-natural eating, from more fruits 'n veggies to making our own salad dressing. The hardest part is using up the numerous dressings we already have on hand, especially after tasting my very own homemade thousand islands...and, recently, my very own homemade thousand islands with homemade mayo. Yes. Yes, I am going crazy, I think...but it's kinda fun. At least I don't have relish made from homemade pickles or homemade ketchup. Yet.
- Writing more/tapping into our creative sides.- Home improvement on a budget!
- Finding happiness, wherever it is and whatever it may mean.

So, there's my little corner of our office. It's starting to match the other walls a little more, even if that may mean "clutter." To me, it's "us". We've got a huge movie poster of "The Philadelphia Story", a crappy painting I did of sleeping Beardslee, some floating shelves, and tons of sketches and we're-so-proud articles of Dave's. It may not be 50-50 yet, but eventually the office will belong to both of us...and hopefully turn into one of my favorite places in the house, rather than one of my least faves.